Nebelhorn - Germany's hardest climb! 

Started the video thinking "oooh that's not too far from where I live, maybe I'll give it a go". A few minutes later "naaaah!". Great job.

I don't know if you are responsible for editing your videos or not but man...they are beautiful. Stunningly crafted.....that was 12 and half minutes of epic cinematic joy. If you ever wonder if what you are doing gets across to your viewing audience,,,,,never doubt it it. Honestly the sheer epicness of your videos blows me away....keep up the good(seems a lame term) work dude!

Mike, so glad you are back and making new videos! I'm with you almost for 10 years. You are consistently inspiring me! :)

I never thought I'd see a German climb featured on the channel. This one was certainly special, keep it up!

I love to watch your videos. Awesome to see the south of Germany making an appearance in your videos.

This deserves ALL the respect! Never seen someone climbing SUCH a steep road! - And of course the video turned out incredibly beautiful with that landscape as well. Thanks for all that effort filming it! Just GREAT!

8 years ago you sparked my love into cycling. I must thank you for that. Please keep making these masterpieces of a videos, ir dare i call it small movies. ❤

Bloomin' 'eck Mike! That's the first time I've heard you out of breath in your videos, even though you are still every bit of the mountain goat you were in the beginning! Awesome battle - I think I'll take the cable car!

Respect man! What a climb 😮 And great footage as always. Thanks for sharing and inspiring us all 👍

This is one climb you WILL NOT motivate me to do 😂😂😂😂 I’ll live through you for this one!!!!

Respect to you . . . one helluva climb. Thanks for the ongoing inspiration your efforts provide.

Awesome in every way as always. Really appreciate the hard work you put into these videos Mike, long may they continue!

What crazy climbs! Awesome video, Mike! I love visiting these fantastic locations through your lens… Thanks for creating this!

Just discovered your channel mate! (YT recommendation) As a sportsfreak (hybrid athlete, cyclist, extreme sports, Hyrox ) I was immediately exited about it! This Nebelhorn will be one of my goals this year! This area is also a paradise for petrolheads like me!

So amazing to have you back, Mike - you have been missed! When you layered in the original Col Collective theme music around 10:30 I got the chills - so good!

You're a BEAST! Great riding. Very inspiring. I got out of breath just watching you!

Always great to see a new upload from you! Thank you!

Massive amount of respect for this!!! I've been up Nebelhorn on foot and it's a bear of a climb, but I never would give that a go on my mtb. You're not only a top amazing athlete, but have to be slightly insane also!

So Enjoyable, glad you back we missed you.

Mike, you have revolutionised the experience of watching (and participating, via an indoor trainer) in epic climbs all over Europe. I love the videos you've produced for Wahoo. Keep up the great work - and consider a visit to the Northern Rockies sometime soon to work your magic!

Wow, glad you’re back, best from Germany!

I would love to watch the descending also!!! Great job , very enjoyable video 👏

What an incredible climbing journey Mike!! Chapeau for the herculean effort and stunning filming/editing. As a long time subscriber of Sufferfest / Wahoo, your On Location episodes are the only reason I keep my subscription active. Cant get enough of them so please keep them coming sir 🙌🏻. Bucket list trip is to join you for some Col accents.

Absolutely amazing Mike, tons of respect. Greetings from Belgium.

Brilliant as always Mike You are a CYBORG :)unbelievable Thank you for sharing

Mike, amazing video! You already brought so many climbs to the average biker, which we wouldn't know otherwise. And seeing an athlete like you suffering like that on Nebelhorn, makes my decision easy to avoid this beast, at least by bike. :) Greetings from Germany!

Inspired film Mike, the camera doesn’t always do justice to the steepness of a road, but that looks absolutely bonkers, like Rosedale chimney, but much longer, with added gravel!! Scalpel’s the perfect weapon for it though, love mine!

Wow same as you ive never heard of that climb. Looks absolutely bonkers, well done for getting up it!!!

Michael Cotty saying "might have to walk" is like hearing Santa say "I might not get the presents delivered this year", or Ricky Gervais saying "I'm not going to offend anyone here". after you get your heart started again, you know he was just kidding, and delivers with panache. Chapeau

The reaction of the hiker when he saw you climbing up - unpriceable! A big kudos for mastering this epic climb!

Awesome video. I can imagine the sketchyness of the decent in the dark with brakes screaming. Done a bit of single track in my day and that looks extremely brutal. Nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment when you reach the top!

Hey, hey, very great tour up to the Nebelhorn in Oberstdorf; i have going the same way running up that hill some years ago at the „Nebelhorn-Run“. Through your video I have remember the trac, it was great, thank you 🏃🏻‍♂️🚴‍♂️💪🏼, Jürgen from Germany

stunning video! Great to see Mike still at it.

Way to go bro, kudos to you, it was a real pleasure to watch this video

It has to be so hard to get a rhythm in check on that climb with all the factors especially wheel spin. Great job Mike, it's so good to have the Col Collective back.

Super video! Love the outro with the cross at the back, well earned! 👌

That's just a crazy-stupid climb but what incredible views! Thanks for sharing these adventures again.

"Peace". Ou nailed it. It is the essence of every moment and any interaction. 👍

Thank you for reminding me how glorious the mountains are in summer.

Welcome back Mr. Mike and all team, we all. Missed you guys

That is insane gradient - I'd be questioning myself too going up that! Very impressive mate.

What a great video, great to see you back too

I grew up next to the cable car going up the Nebelhorn. Skiing down was already quite tough. Never thought anyone could cylce it up. Amazing job!

Thank you Mike you are a great inspiration to all cyclist many thanks for all past videos and new ones to come

Really Great Job. Respect for this Climb! 👍🤙

Hi Mike ,you are a monster climber . So glad to see you in Germany . You rocking the race hardtail . Best regards from cologne

WOW!!!!! I was imagining myself on your bike!!!! AWSOME EFFORT MAN And great image édition..

Your camera crew deserves and Academy Award. Absolutely fantastic filming. Of course, you picked probably the best weather for the filming! Well done.

Not a MTB rider, but always great to watch your vids. Crack on!

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. What a climb. Makes Tormalet look like a toy.

Fabulous video Mike!

Great job showing steepness on your images, always a challenge 🙌

That looks like a nice rewarding challenge. Onto my bucket list it goes 😁

Ooft! That's utterly bonkers. You're a madman, Mr Cotty!

Insane! I couldn't even walk that 😵‍💫 Iove your vids Mike 🙏

Crikey......my back was in spasms just watching the vid. Chapeau young man !

A-freaking-mazing. Well done. Well, well done. I am inspired. Tomorrow when I get to ride my local 4 mile, max 16%, fire road, I’ll still struggle but it will be inspired struggling (in my defense I’m 74 years old so it really is challenging =:). Thanks for the video.

Oh nice, that's where I am from :) I walked up there a few times, but never saw someone go up there by bike, respect! Usually, I go there in night time, so I have the peak to myself at sunset, when the cablecar is not running yet. Can get really crowded up there. And most times, I choose another way down, because of the surface: road, gravel... not great to walk on. Once in winter, I got my sled with me and went down with it, before all the skier and snowboarder even had a chance to come up :D

Incompatible with life. Chapeau !

I did the exact same route on foot with my brother in september of last year. We started from oberstdorf at 9:40 in the morning, and we arrived at the summit 4 hours later. 1 hour of that in total was made up of us sitting around catching our breath. Even on foot the steepest sections where you are going up on both gravel and tarmac were difficult to navigate because every time you put your weight on the back foot to step forward it would slip on the rocks. At some points I think we were questioning why we didn't just take the cable car up, but finally standing below the summit cross, taking in the view and knowing that we were one of the few people there who had actually walked up the entire way was oh so worth it :) We thought about walking down again, but with how steep some of those sections were and with the gravel we were sure that we were going to take a bad fall on the way down so we opted to take the cable car, which was 28€ (!) per person, even though we both already got the students discount, which I thought was a very steep price (haha). I think it's an insane idea to try and go up the Nebelhorn with a bicycle and I definitely would've thought it to be impossible if I hadn't seen this video, amazing work!

Absolute insanity... Chapeau for that one!

i lived up on top of there in the early 90's in the Edmud Probst Haus- used to run down to the town and get the lift back up ! unbelievable scenery , back then I don't think anybody would of dreamed of biking up it !

this came up as a suggestion. Amazing video. 34t front chainring!?! and 20+ % grade. Well done.

Great video Mike 👍🏻😎

awesome! Did you ride the Grüntenhütte? It's nearby in the Allgäuer Alps and also has some very steep gradients. Daniel Friebe wrote about it in Mountain Higher.

Great video once a again

real champ. greeting from bad tölz /bavaria

Perfect and brilliant.

35% 👏 nice work, enjoyed the mtb content 👌

Great bike climb and mountains.

Hi Mike, I appreciate your new video style. Still motivating, but breathing when talking and peddling 300 Watt is more familiar to what I know, just pushing an av. of 150 Watt during the day -:). I train on my wahoo for the ventoux and other rides to come, inspirited by so many of your videos. Like the Bordères, Soulor & Aubisque. Thank you for your work and the love you put into it. Greetings from a neighbor of Oberstdorf. 👋

What an impressive effort and a stunning vid! Thanks for showing this one. I was wondering how you made it back, because night is coming in very fast in the Alps and with the rout it does not look like something you do in the night. Did you stay for the night up there? Love all the workouts with you at Wahoo System and they always get me, even when I am looking for some relaxing ride, it is hard to resist to go on a ride with you.

Gotta start your climbing videos earlier in the day, we'd like to see some descending as well - although I'm pretty sure that it was a cable car ride in this video. Good job, as always.

Just awesome!!👏

What a climb! absolutely bonkers but fantastic at the same time Lol

Awesome, thanks😊

Thought to do it on a gravel bike with front 30/ back 42 gearing. Do you think its possible? Traction will be an issue maybe..

Mike, you're always a star, but for once I can say you sounded like me clipping my toe nails!😅 Congrats Mike, well done . . .

I HAVE NO WORDS..........RESPECT!

Phenomenal effort, well done Mike! It must have been hard, you got off a few times which I'd never seen you do before lol. Stunning video too, thanks for posting it :-) What was the descent like?

Nice Lefty, very well done, you didn’t manage to show quite how hard it was though…I suspect there aren’t many rider who can manage that….well done

Super epic man 👍😀

WOW that's all I can say and also, truly, theirs nowt like a Mike Cotty Col Collective film 🙏😎

Much prefer the cable car and then skiing down it haha. Great effort, I always wondered what it looked like without snow.

Really epic and inspiring....great rider and nature love.....but how was the downhill?

Congrats Mike. If anyone could do it, you could. Not much left to conquer . Thanks.KB

I've skied there a few times, much tougher cycling. How was the descent?

Fooking hell man. Well done.

What a superb video. It really makes me want to go there. Shame about the disgusting muzak though. What's wrong with the sound of tyre on road/gravel?

This would be a fantastic MTB or gravel race venue 🤩

Big congratulations 👏👍 I did it in 2001 til höfatsblick 2100m a.s.l. without pushing the bike online biking. And I felt very bad for one week. It is crazy steep. You cannot bike down. You have to go. Never pushing the mtb Andi

Did you even dismount on the hardest and slipperiest parts of the track? I remember that one u-curve is almost gravel no tarmac and you had no traction. I had to dismount three times on the very steep ascents after passing the first curve above 1450 masl :D

Sweet Cannondale Scalpel. Perfect choice.

Amazing. The weather and sun surely added 10% more, right?! 😅

Bravo!!!!!! Mike

Oooof! Did you take the cable car down? I’ve done a few climbs that steep (nowhere near as long) and the downhills just aren’t any fun. Too steep to “let ‘er rip” and not overly interesting from a MTB perspective.

I know that route, cause I rode it myself last summer. To put some water into the wine of the video here. I see a break after you passed the traverse in the middle of the serpentine section. It's also not sure if you had to get off the bike in the only gravel parts of the way. Multiple turns were shot by an outside camera which seems to be moved each shot. Meaning the rider must make additional breaks every time he moved the outside camera to different turns. To conclude: That you "made" that route at all in the first place is an achievement, but it's not a so-called "red-point completion". Only a few riders in comparison have made that route by bike, but it's important to mention that the route is including this video here only "achieved" with multiple breaks and getting off the saddle. It's an "achievement" but not that kind of an "achievement" it is made here in the describing text of this video. It's still not proven that someone made the ascent without ANY break from 1540m (just before the turn to the 35% ascent beside the mountain creek) all the way up to 1932m (cable car station). Cable Car: bikes are NOT allowed, neither in uphill direction nor in downhill direction. I wanted to take the cable car downhill after I made it uphill with my bike. They said "not allowed". In my opion the route doesn't qualify for a "nonstop bikeroute". In the German speaking bike community it's mainly seen as a "stop-and-go" route which doesn't qualify because it's not possible to make it without any break or stop in it. Some years ago there were a few comments by hotshots, that "you could cycle up the section with roadbike gear ratios without any break" 😂, which of course were the most laughable comments about that section and if it qualifies as a "nonstop biking route". I only can say that it's not fun in any case to ride that section uphill, it's torture. The only way one can prove he or she made it without ANY break would be a completely uncut video from 1540m to the 1932m showing a person cycling uphill without any kind of getting off the bike, no matter if it's caused by loosing grip within the gravel or sheer exhaustion. Up to this point in time such a proving video doesn't exist in RU-vid. Therefore those two top climbing points of Germany which have been proved to be makeable without any kind of getting off the bike are: Osterfelderkopf 2032m by mountainbike and Alpe Schlappold 1740m by roadbike

Are you from England??? Do you know the Hardknott Pass? I have a video of the Lake District on my Tacx Home Trainer. Yes, the south of Germany is perfect for biking. (Black Forest, Allgäu, and in the east Berchtesgaden, (Eagles Nest) Königsee. There is a lot to see.

Great effort. Self filming on those gradients? Herculean.

I got up there on my road bike with road tyres, so slowly my garmin didnt even record I was moving ! if your ever over that way the area of saxon switzerland south of Dresden has some stunning climbs shorter but sharp ! and then a ncie flat river cycle track to recover.